diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm
index a9996e477e..74012ab76d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/video.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/video.scm
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020 Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
-;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
+;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
@@ -1530,6 +1530,210 @@ (define-public libva-utils
 operate properly.")
     (license license:expat)))
 
+(define-public ffmpeg-5
+  (package
+    (name "ffmpeg")
+    (version "5.0")
+    (source (origin
+             (method url-fetch)
+             (uri (string-append "https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-"
+                                 version ".tar.xz"))
+             (sha256
+              (base32
+               "163jmk03nwsiqkpz3k04a48r20w5hhx29rpssh7jq1h5sbviksai"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (inputs
+     `(("dav1d" ,dav1d)
+       ("fontconfig" ,fontconfig)
+       ("freetype" ,freetype)
+       ("frei0r-plugins" ,frei0r-plugins)
+       ("gnutls" ,gnutls)
+       ("opus" ,opus)
+       ("ladspa" ,ladspa)
+       ("lame" ,lame)
+       ("libaom" ,libaom)
+       ("libass" ,libass)
+       ("libbluray" ,libbluray)
+       ("libcaca" ,libcaca)
+       ("libcdio-paranoia" ,libcdio-paranoia)
+       ("libdrm" ,libdrm)
+       ("libtheora" ,libtheora)
+       ("libva" ,libva)
+       ("libvdpau" ,libvdpau)
+       ("libvorbis" ,libvorbis)
+       ("libvpx" ,libvpx)
+       ("libx11" ,libx11)
+       ("libx264" ,libx264)
+       ("mesa" ,mesa)
+       ("openal" ,openal)
+       ("pulseaudio" ,pulseaudio)
+       ;; XXX: rav1e depends on rust, which currently only works on x86_64.
+       ;; See also the related configure flag when changing this.
+       ,@(if (string-prefix? "x86_64" (or (%current-target-system)
+                                          (%current-system)))
+             `(("rav1e" ,rav1e))
+             '())
+       ("sdl" ,sdl2)
+       ("soxr" ,soxr)
+       ("speex" ,speex)
+       ("srt" ,srt)
+       ("twolame" ,twolame)
+       ("vidstab" ,vidstab)
+       ("x265" ,x265)
+       ("xvid" ,xvid)
+       ("zlib" ,zlib)))
+    (native-inputs
+     (list bc
+           perl
+           pkg-config
+           texinfo
+           speex
+           yasm))
+    (arguments
+     `(#:test-target "fate"
+       #:configure-flags
+       ;; possible additional inputs:
+       ;;   --enable-avisynth        enable reading of AviSynth script
+       ;;                            files [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libaacplus      enable AAC+ encoding via libaacplus [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libcelt         enable CELT decoding via libcelt [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libdc1394       enable IIDC-1394 grabbing using libdc1394
+       ;;                            and libraw1394 [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libfaac         enable AAC encoding via libfaac [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libfdk-aac      enable AAC de/encoding via libfdk-aac [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libflite        enable flite (voice synthesis) support via
+       ;;                            libflite [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libgme          enable Game Music Emu via libgme [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libgsm          enable GSM de/encoding via libgsm [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libiec61883     enable iec61883 via libiec61883 [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libilbc         enable iLBC de/encoding via libilbc [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libmodplug      enable ModPlug via libmodplug [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libnut          enable NUT (de)muxing via libnut,
+       ;;                            native (de)muxer exists [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libopencore-amrnb    enable AMR-NB de/encoding via
+       ;;                                 libopencore-amrnb [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libopencore-amrwb    enable AMR-WB decoding via
+       ;;                                 libopencore-amrwb [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libopencv       enable video filtering via libopencv [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libopenjpeg     enable JPEG 2000 de/encoding via
+       ;;                            OpenJPEG [no]
+       ;;   --enable-librtmp         enable RTMP[E] support via librtmp [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libschroedinger enable Dirac de/encoding via
+       ;;                            libschroedinger [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libshine        enable fixed-point MP3 encoding via
+       ;;                            libshine [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libssh          enable SFTP protocol via libssh [no]
+       ;;                            (libssh2 does not work)
+       ;;   --enable-libstagefright-h264  enable H.264 decoding via
+       ;;                                 libstagefright [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libutvideo      enable Ut Video encoding and decoding via
+       ;;                            libutvideo [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libv4l2         enable libv4l2/v4l-utils [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libvo-aacenc    enable AAC encoding via libvo-aacenc [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libvo-amrwbenc  enable AMR-WB encoding via
+       ;;                            libvo-amrwbenc [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libwavpack      enable wavpack encoding via libwavpack [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libxavs         enable AVS encoding via xavs [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libzmq          enable message passing via libzmq [no]
+       ;;   --enable-libzvbi         enable teletext support via libzvbi [no]
+       ;;   --enable-opencl          enable OpenCL code
+       '("--enable-gpl" ; enable optional gpl licensed parts
+         "--enable-shared"
+         "--enable-frei0r"
+         "--enable-fontconfig"
+         "--enable-gnutls"
+         "--enable-ladspa"
+         "--enable-libaom"
+         "--enable-libass"
+         "--enable-libbluray"
+         "--enable-libcaca"
+         "--enable-libcdio"
+         "--enable-libdav1d"
+         "--enable-libfreetype"
+         "--enable-libmp3lame"
+         "--enable-libopus"
+         "--enable-libpulse"
+         ,@(if (string-prefix? "x86_64" (or (%current-target-system)
+                                            (%current-system)))
+               '("--enable-librav1e")
+               '())
+         "--enable-libsoxr"
+         "--enable-libspeex"
+         "--enable-libsrt"
+         "--enable-libtheora"
+         "--enable-libtwolame"
+         "--enable-libvidstab"
+         "--enable-libvorbis"
+         "--enable-libvpx"
+         "--enable-libxvid"
+         "--enable-libx264"
+         "--enable-libx265"
+         "--enable-openal"
+         "--enable-opengl"
+         "--enable-libdrm"
+         "--enable-vaapi"
+
+         "--enable-runtime-cpudetect"
+
+         ;; The HTML pages take 7.2 MiB
+         "--disable-htmlpages"
+
+         ;; The static libraries are 23 MiB
+         "--disable-static"
+
+         ;; Runtime cpu detection is not implemented on
+         ;; MIPS, so we disable some features.
+         "--disable-mips32r2"
+         "--disable-mipsdsp"
+         "--disable-mipsdspr2"
+         "--disable-mipsfpu")
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (replace
+          'configure
+          ;; configure does not work followed by "SHELL=..." and
+          ;; "CONFIG_SHELL=..."; set environment variables instead
+          (lambda* (#:key outputs configure-flags #:allow-other-keys)
+            (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
+              (substitute* "configure"
+                (("#! /bin/sh") (string-append "#!" (which "sh"))))
+              (setenv "SHELL" (which "bash"))
+              (setenv "CONFIG_SHELL" (which "bash"))
+              (apply invoke
+                     "./configure"
+                     (string-append "--prefix=" out)
+                     ;; Add $libdir to the RUNPATH of all the binaries.
+                     (string-append "--extra-ldflags=-Wl,-rpath="
+                                    out "/lib")
+                     configure-flags))))
+         ;; For FFmpeg 5.0, correctly mark all tests that require the
+         ;; downloadble test samples as such. This fixes an error when the test
+         ;; suite tries to build a test image from a source that it cannot
+         ;; download in the build container. Adapted from the upstream source
+         ;; repository:
+         ;; https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=b1ef5882e35d1a95e9c4838d0933084773055345
+         (add-before 'check 'fix-tests
+           (lambda _
+             (substitute* "tests/fate/ffmpeg.mak"
+               (("FATE_FFMPEG-\\$\\(call ALLYES, FILE")
+                "FATE_SAMPLES_FFMPEG-$(call ALLYES, FILE"))))
+         (add-before
+          'check 'set-ld-library-path
+          (lambda _
+            ;; Allow $(top_builddir)/ffmpeg to find its dependencies when
+            ;; running tests.
+            (let* ((dso  (find-files "." "\\.so$"))
+                   (path (string-join (map dirname dso) ":")))
+              (format #t "setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ~s~%" path)
+              (setenv "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" path)
+              #t))))))
+    (home-page "https://www.ffmpeg.org/")
+    (synopsis "Audio and video framework")
+    (description "FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record,
+convert and stream audio and video.  It includes the libavcodec
+audio/video codec library.")
+    (license license:gpl2+)))
+
 (define-public ffmpeg
   (package
     (name "ffmpeg")
